And I gave it a second change. GPU x 3 and GFAM on a i7-920.
When I ask not to receive new work it reports right away.
When I ask to receive new work the client doesn't report (set to report every 0.0 day) and hence no new work is downloaded.
When I ask to do only 40% CPU (just 3 CPU aiding the 3 GPU WUs) it still download pure CPU work. wtf? I can't download enough GPU WUs to last a night so I have to lose all WU and run 1 WU during nights.

If I leave the rig unused it does a GPU WU in 3:00 in an average. With only 1 GPU at the time it did it in 2:20 so a nice boost.

Next step must be to try the GPU only version.

Update - installed app_info (HCC and HCC version) on my 680 rig with a two GPU WUs setting. More to follow. Updated: It ran out after two hours. Back to 1 unit again.
Update 2: My 7770 just did auto send and update when it ran out of GPU work. Let's see if it works all night. Updated: It played nice all night I think.

And I gave it a second change. GPU x 3 and GFAM on a i7-920.
When I ask not to receive new work it reports right away.
When I ask to receive new work the client doesn't report (set to report every 0.0 day) and hence no new work is downloaded.
When I ask to do only 40% CPU (just 3 CPU aiding the 3 GPU WUs) it still download pure CPU work. wtf? I can't download enough GPU WUs to last a night so I have to lose all WU and run 1 WU during nights.

If I leave the rig unused it does a GPU WU in 3:00 in an average. With only 1 GPU at the time it did it in 2:20 so a nice boost.

Next step must be to try the GPU only version.

Update - installed app_info (HCC and HCC version) on my 680 rig with a two GPU WUs setting. More to follow.
Update 2: My 7770 just did auto send and update when it ran out of GPU work. Let's see if it works all night.

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What did you do differently to get it to work? Could be useful to know in case someone else has same problem.

That's the same error I was getting until I copied the text from the CODE quote in the beginning of the thread. Something was happening from what I was copying from ThE_MaD_ShOt. I think that there could be an extra space or something throwing if off just one character.

OK, so I came home from work and I had more stuck WU's (one of which was for over 7 hours ), so I paused everything and closed the client. I disabled Crossfire and relaunched the client. It ran for about 5 hours so far without any more stuck WUs.

Click on tools and computing preferences, then make sure you have the box checked for use gpu while computer is in use. Those wu's you have are for gpu's.

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OMG, i can't believe I forgot to re-check that! (forgot to after the reinstall) Well, went ahead and checked it, applied, and now it's working. Seems to be taking a long time, however. 4 WUs per card, may have try 3 because it's saying it's going to take 40 minutes each, which is nuts. It was doing 1 every 1:30, now 40min?

I'm getting a lot of driver crashes, almost immediately. I disabled cfx, nothing. Tried 4 WU's, no good. 3 WU's, no good. I'll try 2 but I fear that it'll be the same.

I just set it back to 1 each, and it's running normally, each finishing quickly: the last 3 under 1:20. I dropped the clocks back to stock and it seems that they are finishing faster!

I thought maybe it was MSI AB being open, but I tried with it closed and no difference.

edit: seems my cpu is not being used like it used to, so that could account for the speed increase I may have to reinstall the client.

edit2: tried 2 and it had a problem. Driver crashed immediately and then stabalized. Card1 then did nothing, but Card 2 continued to work. Card 1 usage is down at 0, while 2 is sitting up around 98 most of the time.

edit3: driver crashed and it all dropped. I'm going back to normal now, at least it works

I'm getting a lot of driver crashes, almost immediately. I disabled cfx, nothing. Tried 4 WU's, no good. 3 WU's, no good. I'll try 2 but I fear that it'll be the same.

I just set it back to 1 each, and it's running normally, each finishing quickly: the last 3 under 1:20. I dropped the clocks back to stock and it seems that they are finishing faster!

I thought maybe it was MSI AB being open, but I tried with it closed and no difference.

edit: seems my cpu is not being used like it used to, so that could account for the speed increase I may have to reinstall the client.

edit2: tried 2 and it had a problem. Driver crashed immediately and then stabalized. Card1 then did nothing, but Card 2 continued to work. Card 1 usage is down at 0, while 2 is sitting up around 98 most of the time.

edit3: driver crashed and it all dropped. I'm going back to normal now, at least it works

If you want to keep running multiple WUs on your GPUs, you might want to stick with 7. Supposedly the newest BOINC (not the WCG site one) that is required for Windows 8 has issues with running multiple WUs. My 7950 crashed like a mother trucker until I removed the app_info.xml.

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I really don't feel like reinstalling 7, so I'll let it be as is for now. Hopefully someone will find and post a fix to get multi WU's working well on 8. I really had wanted to get 4 WU's on each card going....

So if I understand this right, there is one CPU thread devoted to each GPU WU, correct? So if I get a 7770 card for the other rig I was trying to get up and running, it may not be able to do multiple WUs on that GPU since it's a single core Pentium 4. Am I right?

If so, I may have to put it in the kids' rig and take their GTX280 and put it on the P4. That might work out better that way.

So if I understand this right, there is one CPU thread devoted to each GPU WU, correct? So if I get a 7770 card for the other rig I was trying to get up and running, it may not be able to do multiple WUs on that GPU since it's a single core Pentium 4. Am I right?

If so, I may have to put it in the kids' rig and take their GTX280 and put it on the P4. That might work out better that way.

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Correct- 1 CPU core per GPU so multiple wu's won't work with a single core....

Well, after fiddling with it for a while, I finally got it working. man this stuff can be finicky!

So far it's looking to good. Each card is running 4 WU's and finishing each at around 2:30
Let's hope this proves stable; I'll be monitoring it for the next few hours and then it'll be running all night.

I know you guys are getting sick of me , but I appreciate the help
Everything ran well for a while, but then no new work was coming in. SAW the following errors in the Event log, which i'm assuming accounts for it:

I know you guys are getting sick of me , but I appreciate the help
Everything ran well for a while, but then no new work was coming in. SAW the following errors in the Event log, which i'm assuming accounts for it:http://img.techpowerup.org/121103/wcg4.png